August 7, 2002
MEDIA CONTACT: Elaine Freeman
PHONE: 410-955-6680
E-MAIL: efreeman@jhmi.edu
Lenox
Baker New Hopkins Medicine Board Chair
Shale Stiller, Francis Knott, William Baker Vice Chairs; Traci Lerner Joins
Board
Lenox D. Baker, Jr., M.D., is the new chairperson of the Johns Hopkins
Medicine (JHM) Board of Trustees, as well as of The Johns Hopkins Hospital
and Health System boards. A senior partner and president of Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic
Surgeons, Ltd., a ten-person cardiothoracic surgery group in Norfolk, and
chief of the Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at Sentara Hospitals
in Norfolk, Va., Baker, 60, is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University
and of its School of Medicine and is a long-time Hopkins supporter.
Three other JHM board members have been elected as vice chairs: William
C. Baker, president and CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation; Francis
X. Knott, chairman of Partners Management LLC; and attorney Shale D.
Stiller, Esq., of the law firm of Piper Rudnick, LLP. Stiller and Knott
were reelected to these positions. Traci Shanbrun Lerner, a founder
of Chesapeake Partners, L.P., an investment firm, was appointed as the only
new Johns Hopkins Medicine trustee.
In addition to his service on the Johns Hopkins Medicine board, Baker is
vice chairman of the Hopkins University board, serving on its finance and
executive committees. As co-chair of the recently completed Johns Hopkins
Initiative campaign, he was instrumental in helping raise $1.5 billion for
the institutions. Baker serves on numerous other corporate boards, including
Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Virginia, and was a long-term board member
of Trigon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Virginia before it merged with Anthem.
He was the founding director and chairman of International Medical Prosthetics
and Research Associates from 1974 until it was sold to Bard in 1996, is a
founding director and chairman of the Tidewater Association of Medical and
Surgical Specialists and serves as chairman of the 21st Century Care Systems,
Inc. He also is a board member of American Medical Services, Inc., Surgi-Vision,
FACE Medical, Episcopal High School and the Hermitage Foundation. Baker received
his surgical training at the University of Pittsburgh, where he completed
his internship and residency.
The newly appointed trustee, Traci Shanbrun Lerner, is a graduate of the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and former senior vice president
and head of the arbitrage department of new York-based Dillon, Read &
Company Inc. After leaving that company, she and her husband, Mark David Lerner,
founded Chesapeake Partners, which invests institutional and individual assets
in corporate events such as merger and acquisition transactions, bankruptcies
and reorganizations. Active in the community, Traci Lerner serves on numerous
boards, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, CHANA (an organization that
deals with domestic violence), the Harry Weinberg Family Foundation and the
Kennedy Krieger Institute. She serves on investment committees of The Associated:
Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, Park School and Chizuk Amuno Congregation.
"Johns Hopkins Medicine is extremely fortunate to have as its stewards
these outstanding individuals," said Edward D. Miller, M.D., CEO and
Dean of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "They bring to Hopkins not only their
respective business or clinical experience and successes, but also their individual
commitments to helping Hopkins better fulfill its historic mission of education,
research and patient care."
Johns Hopkins Medicine, established in 1995 to unite Hopkins' biomedical research, clinical, teaching and business enterprises, brings together The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its faculty with the facilities and programs of The Johns Hopkins Health System, including the world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital and other elements of an integrated system. The $2 billion enterprise is one of the largest private employers in Maryland. Its components consistently are named at the top of national rankings for best hospital and best school of medicine, and its faculty consistently win the largest share of NIH research funds. Results of this research continue to advance efforts to diagnose, treat and prevent many diseases.
